Nathalie Peña-Comas

Soprano

Cultural Ambassador for the Dominican Republic and Latin Grammy-Nominee soprano Nathalie Peña-Comas was born in Santo Domingo, where she studied piano and flute at the National Conservatory of Music. Later she graduated with distinction from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Voice and Piano Pedagogy. 

She has made appearances in Austria, Belarus, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.                                     

She performed several operatic roles in Austria and the Dominican Republic including, Contessa di Almaviva (in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (in Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Lucia (in the tango opera Mateo by M. Palmeri directed by Matteo Mazzoni premiered at Vienna’s Theater Akzent), Queen of trolls (in P. M. Davis’ The two Fiddlers), Gabi (in G. Kühr’s Agleia Federweiss), Musetta (in Puccini’s La Bohème), Valencienne (in Lehar’s Lustige Witwe) and most recently Violetta Valéry (in Verdi’s La Traviata) and Micaëla (in Bizet’s Carmen).

Nathalie has sung as soloist and chamber musician at Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Sommerfestival Kittsee (Burgenland), Con Anima Festival (Lower Austria), Brücken-Festival (Styria), Horizonte Festival Landeck (Tirol), IMAGO Sloveniae International Festival (Slovenia), God Allmighty Festival in Belarus, Festival Musical of Santo Domingo (Dom. Rep.) and Academia Sighișoara Festival (Romania); in venues such as prestigious Golden Hall of Musikverein and Mozart Hall Konzerthaus Vienna, MuTh-Vienna Boys Choir Concert Hall; Auditorium José Carreras and Palacio Bauer (Spain); Palacio de Bellas Artes and Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito in the Dominican Republic.

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She has collaborated, a. o. with the Vienna Concert – Verein Orchestra, the Strauss Festival Orchestra, the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mures, National Symphony Orchestra of Dominican Republic, the Academic Musical Theater Orchestra of Minsk and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Belarus; with Maestros Eugene Kohn, Valery Polyansky, José Antonio Molina, Ola Rudner, Gábor Ferenç, Stefano Seghedoni and alongside Andrea Bocelli, Gregory Kunde, Morris Robinson, KS Ramón Vargas and pop artists Danny Rivera,  Johnny Ventura, Plácido Domingo Jr., and many others.                                                  

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With the Ensemble Spirituosi, a musical sextet dedicated to academic and folk music of Latin America, Nathalie has toured through Austria, Dominican Rep., England, Italy, and Spain. Spirituosi’s first Album “Souvenir Latino” won 3 Golden Medals at Global Music Awards in Los Angeles and has been in the play-list of BBC 3 Radio in London. Ensemble Spirituosi was also awarded the Soberano Prize in “Best Classical Concert of 2015” (Dom. Rep.).   

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She won the 1st Prize at the Ebe Stignani Opera International Competition 2022, the 2nd Prize at the Montecatini Opera Festival Singing Competition 2022, and has been awarded five prizes for “Classical Singer of the Year” at Soberano Awards (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 - Dom. Rep.). She was also finalist at the 14th Osaka International Music Competition (2013) and won the special prize for the “Most Promising Soprano” and for the ''Best Interpretation of a Polish Composition'' at the 14th Ada Sari International Competition of Vocal Art (2011). 

She has attended Masterclasses with: Helena Lazarska, Mariella Devia and Kamal Khan. Since 2018 she works with renown Romanian Maestra Irina Gavrilovici. 

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